Reflecting on my prior knowledge of normal distribution, my understanding of it has definitely increased significantly since studying it in this class. I didn't realize that it was something that was so widely applicable in everyday life and in so many areas of different professions as well. This class has really broadened my understanding to the theory and application of normal distribution. I work in the healthcare field in Radiology, and I can see numerous ways normal distribution is used in our facility. One that particularly stands out to me would be our Mammography Department.

We have a software called MRS that is used to track the Mammography patients once they have had their procedure done. One of the factors that the software tracks is breast tissue density because it makes it hard for the Radiologists to fully visualize the patient's images for any microcalcifications which are or other cystic masses or lesions, which makes these patients higher risk if you will and they require further follow-up. The system calculates the percentage of woman that come back with positive findings and have dense breast tissue vs those that do and do not fall in this category and their age range is used as the other determinant, which would fall in line with normal distribution. Ways this could be viewed as being abused would be the women that present with false positives that fall under the dense category for their age group and receive unnecessary testing by means of further imaging as a result.

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